I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

Feeling awful is physiological you say.God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.